The world is a crazy medley of cymbals and cuckoo-clock noises, and it’s an excellent moment to reach for ballast to the writing of Adrienne Rich, who would have turned eighty-eight today.… Read more »

Years after the English department at the University of Pennsylvania voted to replace a portrait of William Shakespeare with something that would “represent more diversity in writing,” the Bard was… Read more »

CAConrad has seen trouble before. A self-described “son of white trash asphyxiation,” the celebrated Philadelphian has lived, as the old curse has it, in interesting times. And he’s never been shy about… Read more »